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UDP Port 4310

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2010

Who would’ve thought that I’d have to open up UDP port 4310 on a Sonicwall firewall to get IMAP working on a new Windows Server 2008r2? All was fine with the same server software on an old Windows 2000 Server behind the same firewall. We’re talking about moving a DNS record and a few gigabytes [...]

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Make a Bootable OS X USB Flash Drive With SuperDuper

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 8, 2010

If you have an Intel-based Macintosh computer, a copy of the excellent SuperDuper ($27.95) from Shirtpocket and a 5 GB or greater USB flash drive, you can easily create a faster bootable copy of any Mac OS X installer disc. It’s easy: Format the flash drive with Disk Utility making sure to select GUID from [...]

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Final Cut Studio 2: Quicktime Dependancy Compressor Bug

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 6, 2008

If you ever use Quicktime clips that use linked dependancy files that are missing you will hang Compressor 3.0.2 when adding these clips to a batch queue. I’ve not tested this with any other version and I’m running 10.5.1 Leopard. Compressor droplets also suffer the same problem and will hang as well. The easiest solution [...]

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Fallout 2 Survival Kit – Version 1.4 Available Here

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 4, 2007

With the recent news of Fallout 3 arriving I dug out my Fallout 1 and 2 discs to relive the dirt and glory once more. A bit of the way into Fallout 2 I somehow lost a key inventory item and couldn’t seem to get it back, so a little help was needed. I remembered [...]

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Getting vector EPS files into Microsoft® Office Documents

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 19, 2006

It’s not uncommon to pass around Office documents containing common graphics like logos as bitmaps. A lot of times the artwork that is embedded isn’t the best format for the task making the file unnecessarily large or the printed output of lesser quality. Bitmap, 1-bit Tiffs, Gifs or whatever all have potential problems when it [...]

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Tips For Working With Corrupted Media with Final Cut Studio (AKA the “General Error”)

By Eric Peacock | Published: August 25, 2006

Every so often I’ll come across a Final Cut Pro sequence that won’t render or can’t be exported at all. When this happens FCP will either spit out an error box with the string “General Error” or it’ll simply stop when doing a render or export – frustrating and unclear as to what the problem [...]

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Illustrator Resolution and Effects Explained

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 6, 2006

I see Illustrator effects abuse or misuse all the time and have long thought about a clear and informative explanation of how best to approach using transparency effects within the application. It took me years to get a firm grasp of it myself. Mordy Golding beat me to it. Fair enough, he used to be [...]

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Setup Tip for Onkyo TX-SR601 Receiver Owners

By Eric Peacock | Published: September 5, 2005

Own an Onkyo TX-SR601 A/V receiver? Yeah, they’re old hat having reen replaced by the newer models, but this receiver sounds fantastic for what it cost. However they’re poorly documented when it comes to proper setup. An improperly set up TX-SR601 tends to drop into “PROTECT” mode frequently when switching audio streams (multichannel to stereo [...]

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